Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 29

[29. Chapter 28]

Su Jin and Zhu Nanxian bypassed Zhuque Lane and took the road to Zhengyangmen.

On even-numbered days every month, the city commanders are on duty at the city gates.

That is to say, as long as Su and Jin can find Qin Zhaolin, the commander of troops and horses at Zhengyangmen in time, and drag the troops and horses of Nancheng until early tomorrow morning, they can be rescued.

Going out through the alley, and further ahead is the Zhaohe Bridge. Under the bridge, the still water flows deep. There is a row of people standing on the bridge. The first two people are wearing the seventh-grade guard uniform, and the other is an acquaintance. .

Zhu Nanxian paused, helped Su Jin lower his hood, and pulled out a short dagger from his waist and handed it to her: “You take self-defense.” The

short dagger is engraved with You Python, reflecting the moon Color, the python face is particularly hideous.

Su Jin, a scholar, has no strength to hold a chicken, and no weapons to stand by, I am afraid that it will drag others down.

Knowing that this was not the time to be polite, she took the short dagger and nodded to Zhu Nanxian: “Your Highness, be more careful.”

Lu Yuwei smiled, his round face with narrow eyes, looking very kind: “Ten Third Highness, I’m looking forward to your coming back from the northwest, you can’t miss this opportunity, is this subordinate officer offended?”

He raised his hand and made a move, and the dark guard behind him quickly surrounded Su Jin and the two of them in a circle.

Su Jin looked at it secretly, these secret guards were all dressed in black, and I don’t know what their identities were. I guess there are about twenty or thirty people. Under such circumstances, even if Zhu Nanxian is good at martial arts, I am afraid that they will not be able to keep the two of them. Get out of your body.

For today’s plan, there is only drag and drop tactics.

The captain of the guard drew his sword first, the blade was unsheathed, and there was a clanking sound in the dark night.

The surrounding dark guards heard the sound and wanted to move, but suddenly Su Jin said in a deep voice, “Hold on.”

She paused, took advantage of the momentary hesitation of the dark guards, and continued lightly: “Lu Yuwei, Your Highness has not mentioned it to you. If you want to kill His Highness Thirteen, what is the best way to do it?

” When they came out, everyone was stunned for a moment, and for a while they couldn’t tell which side of the person who was covered in a black cloak and covered his face with a hood belonged to.

Lu Yuwei only felt that Su Jin’s voice was a little familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he heard it, but listening to her, he seemed to be someone from “His Royal Highness”?

He didn’t dare to act rashly, and said alertly, “Who are you?”

Su Jin slowly sighed in relief when he heard this question.

Shen Xi’s elder sister is the crown prince, so 80% of the Shen family belong to the prince’s party.

Since Lu Yuwei was working under Shen Xi, it was too late to protect His Highness the Thirteenth, so how could he lure her to go to the Mafu bureau and take the opportunity to assassinate Zhu Nanxian?

There is only one explanation, Lu Yuwei must have been instigated.

She didn’t know which Highness was turned against Su Jin, but she knew that no master would be at ease with a capricious subordinate.

Therefore, as the current master, Lu Yu will definitely not let him know how many chips he holds in his hand.

It was when Su Jin thought of this that he decided to pretend that he was another bargaining chip under the “master”, trying to fish in troubled waters and plan to drag it to the end.

She gave a low smile from under the cloak, and said: “Lu Yuwei, you are so stupid, you don’t even think about it, how could your Highness feel at ease handing over such an important matter to the assassination of His Highness the Thirteenth to someone who has just been brought under his command? A traitor who still doesn’t know the root cause?”

His expression froze slightly, but he soon found the clue: “No, I came here temporarily with Chief Guard You, and His Highness did not entrust me with the task of assassinating His Highness the Thirteenth. It is His Highness’s confidant, so he is willing to tie this thousand-dollar gambling game to you, how can you not know the layout tonight, and why I am here temporarily?”

Su Jin’s heart condensed, but she smiled again, she turned her back and said lightly: “Why do you want to follow? Because you are a little smarter than Ma Shaoqing, you are afraid that you will be the same as him and end up being a dead chess move in the end. , become a scapegoat for others, so you have to find a way to live for yourself. You count the Thirteenth Highness to flee south, so you wait here to block him with the captain of the guard You, you want to be in front of your ‘His Royal Highness’ Make a contribution, even if you use the method of interception, anyway, the dirty water can’t be splashed on you, it’s better to let Ma Shaoqing take the full responsibility, oh, it’s not possible, and Zeng Youliang from the Ministry of Personnel.”

Su Jin’s words were in the middle of Lu Yu ‘s heart. .

His face flushed red, as if he had been stripped to reveal his shame in front of the crowd, and said angrily, “You, you are talking nonsense!”

Su Jin smiled again, slowing down his tone and seeming to be serious: “I want two ends. It’s not worth taking advantage of Lu Yuan, even if you can stand alone in front of ‘His Royal Highness’, you have betrayed Lord Shen. Do you think Lord Shen will let you go, and Donggong will let you go? Or do you think that there is nothing but you in this world? Fool, no one will see that you are also in this chess game, a crucial, indispensable, one move, a mortal chess.”

Su Jin’s words were exactly what Lu Yuwei was most worried about.

Even if he can kill the Thirteen Kings tonight and make his first contribution to His Highness, but after this is done, with Shen Qingyue’s ability, can he really escape?

The anxiety in his heart suddenly calmed him down, and suddenly reminded him that before leaving the Ma Mansion, the people under his command said that His Highness the Thirteenth was leaving with a maid.

But this man who is covered in a cloak and can break the situation at the first sight of the blood, how can he look like a servant girl?

Lu Yuwei squinted at Su Jin, and finally said, “No, you must not belong to His Highness. If you were, why wouldn’t you show your true face? Besides, the one who left with Zhu Shisan in the Ma Mansion was a maid. A maid, how do you know that I am a member of the Ministry of Punishment?” As soon as these

words came out, the guards drew their knives, and the surrounding area suddenly rattled.

However, after a short while, Su Jin’s voice sounded calmly again: “Mr. Lu, are you curious about who I am?” She paused, raised her hand and slowly took off her hood, “Then I will Let’s take a look.” The

black hood slipped down, blue silk fell on his shoulders, and his pale complexion became clearer and more attractive.

Lu Yuwei stared at the person in front of him with wide eyes: “Are you Su Jin? You, you are—”

Unfortunately, at the moment when he was stunned, Zhu Nanxian turned to his side in a flash and turned to him. Hands like a blade, he picked up the long knife of the dark guard beside him from the bottom up.

The light of the knife was like water, and the body of the knife swirled in the air, but Zhu Nanxian grabbed it, clasped his hand back, and put it on Lu Yuwei’s neck.

Zhu Nanxian raised his eyebrows and smiled: “Outside Lu Yuan, has anyone taught you that when the two armies confront each other, you should not be distracted?”

There was no movement outside the Ma residence.

According to the original plan, even if the Thirteenth Highness could not be poisoned in the banquet hall, at the latest, someone should report back to Zhu Nanxian’s death.

But now it’s nearly the end of the ugly time, and the outside of the mansion is still like a dead silence.

Zeng Youliang felt that something was wrong, saying that he was drunk, and he had to leave immediately.

Just now, Zhu Nanxian came and left inexplicably, and most of the party’s interest had been swept away. All the officials, big and small, were relieved when they saw that the Minister of Personnel was about to leave, and got up to say goodbye to Ma Shaoqing.

Ma Shaoqing sent the person to the outer courtyard. It might be that the door of the mansion, which was originally half-closed, was suddenly pushed open.

Shen Xi stood outside the mansion with a leisurely look, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: “Yo, it’s so lively, Ma Shaoqing is serving wine, why didn’t he call him an official?”

Ma Shaoqing felt bleak, Shen Xi was the prince’s man , since he is here, it must be something bad.

He bowed down to Shen Xi with a sullen face, and solemnly said: “It’s just a mere child’s full moon wine, how can the lower official dare to break his face and ask the Lord Shilang to appreciate him? Naturally, the Lord Shilang is coming, and the lower official is ten thousand willing.” Saying that, he knelt down again and changed direction, stretched out his hand in an inviting gesture, “Master Shilang, please come in.”

Shen Xixiye’s arrival at this point, for Zeng Youliang, is undoubtedly a publicity of the incident.

He was eager to leave this place of right and wrong, and immediately bowed to Shen Xi and said: “Shen Shilang is slow, this old man is drunk tonight, so I will not accompany him.” He

was about to go out, but Shen Xi reached out and stopped him, “Wait. Wait.” He looked around coldly, and said slowly: “Since this official is here, no one wants to leave.”

Zeng Youliang ignored him, avoided his hand in front of him, raised his foot before taking a step. At the threshold, Shen Xi coldly said again, “Zeng Shangshu, is His Highness the Thirteenth Dead?”

Zeng Youliang’s foot stepped out and retracted. He turned around and looked at Shen Xi with a somber expression on his face. , “What kind of outrageous words is Shen Shilang saying!”

Shen Xi did not answer him, but looked at the large and small officials in the courtyard, and said, “This official asks you, has His Highness the Thirteenth been here?”

All the officials Looking at each other in dismay, someone replied: “Master Hui Shilang, I’ve been here.”

Shen Xi raised his eyebrows, then raised his finger to Zeng Youliang and said, “Then, has this Minister of Officials delivered wine to His Highness?”

This time No one dared to answer.

Shen Xi smiled: “That’s it.” He turned his face and looked straight into Zeng Youliang’s eyes: “Zeng Shangshu, you are so bold, how dare you hand over poisoned wine to His Highness the Thirteenth.”

Zeng Youliang said angrily. : “Shen Qingyue, don’t make rude words here! You said that the old man handed over poisoned wine, do you have any evidence?

” “Master Shang Shu has a well-planned plan. Even if there is evidence, shouldn’t it be destroyed by the master?”

He didn’t wait for Zeng Youliang to make an excuse, looked around, and suddenly ordered He Langzhong of the Ministry of War, “He Yi, bring your sword!”

Shen Xi held the hilt of the sword, pulled the sword out of its sheath, and threw the sword body on the ground with a “bang”, and said coldly: “Listen, this official, in the name of the prince today, suspects that all of you have evil intentions, and all of you have assassinated ten. The suspicion of the third highness. If you want to leave, you can, pick up the sword if you have the courage, and wipe it on the neck of this official, otherwise, don’t blame this official for wiping it on your neck.”

[End of This Chapter]